My cats normally love Johnson's Catnip. I thought I'd pick up a couple as the bottle I used to keep the scratching post enticing had run out. Unfortunately, what I purchased was completely ineffective, the cats ignored it completely. I thought it may have been tampered with as the product seal tape wasn't on the bottles. Then I noticed the expiry date... May 2010. This reminded me of the expired printer cartridge game. These are going back, I'll buy from the vet as usual. My faith in Amazon sellers takes yet another beating.

Something to wave at the Gendarmerie (despite there not being a fine for not having one) I have no idea whether or not this works, I have absolutely no intention of drinking and driving, it's just there to tick a box. It could be made of sugar for all I know...

Works well at keeping piles of hard drives cool and connected. I had 30 or so USB2 2TB external drives that were becoming unwieldy to operate, so I released the drives from their cases and installed them into this USB3 enclosure.

The speeds are good and the drives are just individual, not RAID. It is very simple to add drives and the fan just needs to be set about 1/3 off minimum to keep the discs around 30C (ambient of 22C)

The drives are powered in order so connection to a USB3 NAS is straightforward and trouble free. I didn't try the E-SATA connection, I assume it would be more-or-less the same as the USB3 connection and show up the four connected drives.

As I don't watch DVDs directly, the menus and subtitles aren't an issue. Ripping them to NAS box has got me every episode of Dalziel and Pascoe for less than £1 per disc. Great deal, the BBC doesn't sell the series any more for some reason, so we have to rely on Dutch imports...

I haven't had the power problems of other users, I have a few of these connected to a powered USB hub and rip DVDs to a central pool for multi-machine distributed Handbrake ripping. My only minor gripe is the position of the eject button, when the drives are stacked up it is impossible to get a the eject button. Ejecting in software is easy enough though. Just for a laugh, I connected the drive to the TV and I can play DVDs directly into the USB port of the TV, not useful feature for me, but it could help someone in a squeeze. This drive does need a decent amount of power from the USB port for burning at full speed and many computers short change devices on the power available at the USB port.